0938-AP78 200910 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 0900 Department of Health and Human Services HHS Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program (CMS-0033-P) Economically Significant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage Yes Undetermined Not Yet Determined PL 111-5 (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Title IV of Division B, Medicare and Medicaid Health Information Technology) Statutory Other 01/01/2011 Date can start incentive payments to eligible professionals (Medicare) Statutory Other 10/01/2010 Date can start incentive payments to hospitals (Medicare) Establishes policies and procedures required before the incentive program can begin. Additionally supplemental payments are available in 2011 and 2012. If eligible professionals and hospitals are not meaningful Electronic Health Record users by 2015 there will be a Medicare payment adjustment imposed Yes NPRM 12/00/2009 Undetermined State Undetermined No No 0991-AB58 Related to Elizabeth Holland S. 0938 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS 410 786-1309 elizabeth.holland@cms.hhs.gov Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, MS: S2-26-17, 7500 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21244